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Labusch, Melanie; Massol, Stéphanie; Marcet, Ana; Perea, Manuel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
An often overlooked but fundamental issue for any comprehensive model of visual-word recognition is the representation of diacritical vowels: Do diacritical and nondiacritical vowels share their abstract letter representations? Recent research suggests that the answer is "yes" in languages where diacritics indicate suprasegmental…
Descriptors: Vowels, Distinctive Features (Language), French, Pronunciation
Cruz Blandón, María Andrea; Cristia, Alejandrina; Räsänen, Okko – Cognitive Science, 2023
Computational models of child language development can help us understand the cognitive underpinnings of the language learning process, which occurs along several linguistic levels at once (e.g., prosodic and phonological). However, in light of the replication crisis, modelers face the challenge of selecting representative and consolidated infant…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Infants, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics
Ménard, Lucie; Prémont, Amélie; Trudeau-Fisette, Pamela; Turgeon, Christine; Tiede, Mark – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Objective: We aimed to investigate the production of contrastive emphasis in French-speaking 4-year-olds and adults. Based on previous work, we predicted that, due to their immature motor control abilities, preschool-aged children would produce smaller articulatory differences between emphasized and neutral syllables than adults. Method: Ten…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Preschool Children, Human Body, Articulation (Speech)
Still Not Adult-Like: Lexical Stress Contrastivity in Word Productions of Eight- to Eleven-Year-Olds
Arciuli, Joanne; Ballard, Kirrie J. – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Lexical stress is the contrast between strong and weak syllables within words. Ballard et al. (2012) examined the amount of stress contrastivity across adjacent syllables in word productions of typically developing three- to seven-year-olds and adults. Here, eight- to eleven-year-olds are compared with the adults from Ballard et al. using acoustic…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Children, Preadolescents, Vowels
Loutrari, Ariadne; Tselekidou, Freideriki; Proios, Hariklia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
Prosodic patterns of speech appear to make a critical contribution to memory-related processing. We considered the case of a previously unexplored prosodic feature of Greek storytelling and its effect on free recall in thirty typically developing children between the ages of 10 and 12 years, using short ecologically valid auditory stimuli. The…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Greek, Story Telling, Preadolescents
Alif Silpachai – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation presents three studies that examined issues related to the production and the perception of pitch in a tone language. The first study examined linguistic contexts that may modulate consonant-induced pitch perturbations (CF0) in a tone language. Previous studies have produced mixed findings regarding the role of linguistic…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Intonation, Vowels, Speech Communication
Tsang, Art – Language Teaching Research, 2022
While most empirical studies have investigated the improvement of learners' L2 spoken proficiency via speaking-related interventions, the present study examined the same topic through a different modality: listening. Ninety-five first-year tertiary-level students of English as a second language (ESL) in Hong Kong participated in this three-month…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Grandon, Bénédicte; Vilain, Anne; Gillis, Steven – First Language, 2019
This study explores the use of F0, intensity and duration in the production of two types of prominences in French: primary accent with duration as the main acoustic cue, and secondary accent with F0 and intensity as acoustic cues. These parameters were studied in 13 children using a cochlear implant (CI) and 17 children with a normal hearing (NH),…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Acquisition, French, Pronunciation
Bauman, Carina – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation explores language as a resource for the formation and expression of ethnic identity among the members of an Asian American college sorority. As a community of practice organized around ethnicity, the sorority provides an excellent site to examine the mutually constitutive relationship of language and ethnic identity. Two features…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Asian Americans, Interviews, Ethnography
Nadeu, Marianna; Hualde, Jose Ignacio – Language and Speech, 2012
A common feature of public speech in Catalan is the placement of prominence on lexically unstressed syllables ("emphatic stress"). This paper presents an acoustic study of radio speech data. Instances of emphatic stress were perceptually identified. Within-word comparison between vowels with emphatic stress and vowels with primary lexical stress…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Acoustics, Syllables, Vowels
Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Nazzi, Thierry – Developmental Science, 2012
Previous work has shown that preterm infants are at higher risk for cognitive/language delays than full-term infants. Recent studies, focusing on prosody (i.e. rhythm, intonation), have suggested that prosodic perception development in preterms is indexed by maturational rather than postnatal/listening age. However, because prosody is heard…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Acquisition, Delayed Speech, Phonemes
Ballard, Kirrie J.; Djaja, Danica; Arciuli, Joanne; James, Deborah G. H.; van Doorn, Jan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: Accurate production of lexical stress within English polysyllabic words is critical for intelligibility and is affected in many speech-language disorders. However, models of speech production remain underspecified with regard to lexical stress. In this study, the authors report a large-scale acoustic investigation of lexical stress…
Descriptors: Young Children, Young Adults, Suprasegmentals, Accuracy
Morrill, Tuuli – Language and Speech, 2012
This study investigates the phonetic implementation of stress in American English compounds by measuring the interaction of stress cues with different intonation patterns. Participants in an experiment produced compounds and phrases such as "greenhouse" and "green house" in different prosodic positions and sentence types to elicit the contrast in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentences, Cues, Intonation
Padayodi, Cecile Mamalinani – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study suggests revisions to the segmental and tonal phonology of Kabiye following a reanalysis of consonants, vowels, and tones in the speech of 7 male native speakers. Acoustic investigations are also included to illustrate some phonetic aspects of segments and tone. Data were elicited through three speech styles--wordlists, short phrases,…
Descriptors: Investigations, Phonetics, Vowels, Phonemics
Oh, Grace Eunhae – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The current dissertation investigated segmental and prosodic aspects of first- (L1) and second-language (L2) speech production. Forty Korean-speaking adults and children varying in L2 experience (6 months-inexperienced vs. 6 years-experienced) as well as twenty age-matched native English speaking adults and children participated. Experienced…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interaction, Speech, Vowels
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